Wax Seal Christmas Tree

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I'm having such afun time working with some of Spellbinders October club kits and this time I'm finally getting round to sharing what I made using the tree shaped seal I made while experimenting with the Wax Seal of the Month club

I got a bit carried away this month and tried all sorts o ways to use and add to the lovely 'Merry & Bright' Wax Seal. This one kind of grew into a Christmas Tree! I can't remember my thought process but then I rarely can!  I think I'd already made one regular seal with green wax when the idea of trying to make the seal part of a tree.  Maybe I was already thinking about adding it on top of the tree die in the Small Die of the Month set... 

Anyway, I did a pour and scrape with white wax for the lettering, then had two ovens each with green wax in their spoons.  The first spoonful was used to stamp the seal into, then with the second lot I made the rest of the tree shape by pouring carefully freehand.

 If you try this, it's best to leave the stamp in place while you do the second pour, so remove the handle of the stamp and just use the stamp itself when you stamp into the green wax (if it's too hot to hold wrap the screw end in a folded piece of kitchen towel - or use heat proof gloves if you have them) - it's much   easier to see and pour the shape you want without the handle in the way

 

I wanted to keep the card simple and let the seal be the star so I matted it onto some fine corrugated card, then gold glitter card before adhering to a fern green card. I'd trimmed a couple of cms off the side to make a fat rectangle rather than square card, so used the bit I'd trimmed off to foil some of the sentiments from October's Glimmer of the Month club

To complete the card I added a small red bow below the tree and a 2 layer star at the top 

 

 Materials

from Spellbinders;

 

October Wax Seal of the Month

includes Silver Bullion powder

 

October Glimmer of the Month club 

sentiment with gold foil

 

 Sticky Circles for Wax Seals

 Other

White Wax beads 

Mix of green Wax beads 

Fern Green 14x14cm card blank

Fine ribbed corrugated card 

Gold Glitter card card for matting 

Matte Gold card and star punches 

Narrow red ribbon

 

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 Kathy xx